Healthy carrot cake banana bread recipe

This carrot cake banana bread recipe had been on my to make list for a long time. It just felt like such a great combination of flavors and that’s just bound the be delicious right? The texture of this bread is just absolutely delicious.

Carrot cake banana bread

I quickly ordered a bunch of bananas and the rest of the ingredients I usually have available. My bunny Lot had to sacrifice some of her carrots, Haha.

I had to wait for the bananas to ripen, because that is the most important part of any banana bread; the bananas have to be really ripe as they provide most of the sweetness. Once they were ripe I got to work.

This recipe is a variation of my favorite banana bread recipe and I am always playing around with variations on it. After some trial and error I was happy with how the carrot banana bread batter tasted so I poured the batter into a cake tin and placed it in the oven.

Initially I wanted to make a cream cheese glaze to go on top of the bread but I decided against it as I wanted to be able to freeze it easily so I would always have an easy afternoon snack.

If you want you can absolutely make my favorite cream cheese frosting to top the carrot bread with. With this frosting it’s less healthy, but very delicous.

What you need for making this banana bread

• almond flour – I love adding almond flour to a lot of cake recipes, as it gives it a lovely flavor and the cake stays moist easier too
• all purpose flour
• bananas – you need about 300 grams of mashed bananas
• vanilla extract
• eggs
• baking powder and baking soda
• cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, cloves – these warm spices can be replaced by a spice mix like the gingerbread spice mix
• walnuts
• carrots

As you can see you do not add any other refined sugar which is also why it is important to make sure you’re using overripe bananas (brown bananas are best!).

If they are not you could consider adding a small amount of brown sugar to the mix but it’s better to wait until the bananas are ripe.

Making the banana bread

Making this homemade banana bread with carrots is as easy as mixing the wet ingredients together in a large bowl. Mix the dry ingredients together and add to the wet ones. Fold it through until incorporated and add the chopped walnuts and the shredded carrots at the last step.

Since the mixing doesn’t require a lot of time you don’t really need a food processor or hand mixer here. Just a large mixing bowl is enough.

Fold it through and pour batter into the prepared loaf pan. You can either grease the loaf pan and dust with flour or you can use parchment paper.

Place the banana bread carrot cake in the preheated oven and bake until golden brown. Let the bread cool for a few minutes in the loaf pan and take it out to cool completely on a wire rack.

This moist carrot cake will keep for 2-3 days in an airtight container (not in the fridge) or freeze it in slices for easy acces to a quick snack. You can read more about how to store banana bread here.

More banana bread

Now the number of variations on my classic healthy banana bread recipe are ever growing. If you’re a fan of banana bread make sure to check out the recipes below and stay tuned for much more variations coming soon!

• Classic banana bread
• Banana bread bundt cake
• Banana bread mug cake
• Cream cheese banana bread